Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a town and also neighborhood on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid referral SH523786. The Royal Mail postal code begins LL75. The community population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name means at the end of (or head of) a beach, and also it lies near Traeth Coch (Red Jetty Bay). There is a small river, Afon Nodwydd which goes through it. The town's ancient name was Llanfair Betws Geraint. In 1170 it was the site of a battle when Hywel abdominal Owain Gwynedd landed with an army raised in Ireland in an effort to declare a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd complying with the fatality of his daddy Owain Gwynedd. He was beat as well as eliminated here by the forces of his half-brothers Dafydd abdominal muscle Owain Gwynedd and also Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens remained in the town on his journey, as a reporter for The Times, to check out the accident of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. Between 1908 and also 1950 it was offered by Pentraeth train terminal, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The village has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., who play in the Gwynedd Organization, the fourth rate of Welsh football. The centre of the village is The Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church and the Panton Arms hostelry along with a row of stores called Cloth Hall. This was founded in the 19th century by Benjamin Thomas as a general store. It continued as a food store right into the 1990s, and also is currently occupied by a carpet shop as well as a bakeshop and party-ware hire store.